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New HRx Releases!
Greetings Audiophiles, we are pleased to announce that the recent release Britten’s Orchestra is available as an HRx disc in time for the holidays! It’s the perfect gift for the audiophile on your list. We also have another HRx that we are releasing &mdash Eugene Istomin (piano) with Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra performing Mozart Concertos Nos. 21 and 24! Click HERE to purchase! Here are the details: EUGENE ISTOMIN, pianoA legendary pianist!…
T-Shirt Contest on Facebook!
Reference Recordings is hosting a T-Shirt contest on Facebook! Here are the instructions: 1. Go to http://facebook.com/referencerecordings2. Make sure you are a “Fan”3. Answer this question: “What well-known music critic wrote the booklet notes for Reference Recordings’ new release Britten’s Orchestra?4. Leave your answer on Facebook along with your size preference (options M,L,XL) and your color preference (black or grey). The black mock-up. Showing the front, the back is blank The grey mock-up. Showing the…
Britten’s Orchestra Review
Here is another rave review of Britten’s Orchestra by Puggingham Palace blogger Don Clark. Kansas City Symphony: Britten’s Orchestra OK I admit I was worried over nothing. The Kansas City Symphony and Music Director Michael Stern have been involved in 3 recordings since Stern’s arrival here in 2005. The first ones were for Naxos and compositions by the heretofore unknown (at least in the USA) Taiwanese composer Gordon Chin. The second was a recording of…
Britten’s Orchestra Review – Audiophilia
Today we would like to share a review of Britten’s Orchestra from Anthony Kershaw at Audiohilia: the Online Journal for the Serious Audiophile: Britten’s Orchestra — Stern/Kansas City Symphony/Reference Recordingsby Anthony Kershaw Its fourth music director, Michael Stern (son of violinist, Issac), has secured the recording services of Reference Recordings and the amazing recording engineer, Prof. Keith Johnson. Johnson’s recordings with Reference are legendary. Audiophiles know and love them, the mainstream should follow suit. The…
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving from Reference Recordings! Forget Black Friday, just go to http://referencerecordings.com
Joel Fan Concert Review from the Las Vegas Sun
Philharmonic shows poise in weekend aural safari By Joe Brown (contact)Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 The Philharmonic was joined for George Gershwin’s Concerto in F for Piano and Orchestra by New York-based pianist Joel Fan, who brought a crisp bite and precision to the piece’s visually showy, technically difficult (and loud) hammering runs on the Steinway grand piano… To Read the review in it’s entirety, please visit the Las Vegas Sun website by clicking HERE
Britten’s Orchestra Audio Preview – HDtracks.com
We know that some people just don’t believe anything until they see it, and when it comes to music, they don’t believe anything until they hear it! So, today we’d like to direct you over to our friends at HDtracks.com who currently have an 88khz/24bit downloadable version of Britten’s Orchestra (HRx is coming VERY soon, we will let you know so you can get them in time for Christmas). The reason we are directing you…
Acoustic Sounds, Inc. Top Sellers List
Okay, so just to brag a little bit. We found out that on the Acoustic Sounds, Inc. website, they have all kinds of Top Sellers Lists. Well, we took a look at the Top 50 list for HDCD sales in the last 30 days just for fun, and found that 32 of the Top 50 HDCDs were all Reference Recordings Releases! And more importantly we are #1 & #2!!!!! Interestingly enough, the #1 selling HDCD…
What People are Saying?
Want to know what people are saying about RR or Britten’s Orchestra? Well, we’ll share a little with you, but if you really want to know, you’ll follow us on Twitter! From @bengl3rt: hey @RefRecordings thanks for the #FF! If you’re interested in insanely good classical recordings, check these guys out 🙂 From @audiophilia: #Audiophilia @RefRecordings HRx DVD-R Data Discs http://tinyurl.com/yeffvma The new digital audio domain? #audiophile From @ClassicalReview: Exciting mail today. My Joep Franssens…
Three Questions with Joel Fan
In their excitement for Joel Fan’s performance with the Las Vegas Philharmonic on November 21st, Las Vegas Weekly did a feature with our artist Joel Fan that we thought we’d share with you: Tue, Nov 17, 2009 (2:30 p.m.)Pianist Joel FanThe Billboard top-10 classical artist will accompany the Las Vegas Philharmonic for Gershwin’s “Piano Concerto in F” as part of the second concert in this season’s Masterworks Series.What attracted you to “Concerto in F,” and…
Joel Fan Video!
Joel Fan is now on YouTube! He has a whole YouTube Channel in fact! You can find it by clicking the last link, or find them all in our Joel Fan playlist on the Reference Recordings YouTube Channel. Here is a video of Joel playing a Margaret Bonds’ piece that can be found on his latest release from Reference Recordings:
Hi-Rez Britten’s Orchestra
The HRx is still not quite yet available (starting to look like next week, we’ll let you know as soon as it’s out), but if you just don’t want to wait for a CD to arrive, but don’t want a low-resolution Mp3 version, we have another option. On HDTracks.com we have 44.1 kHz versions available NOW! And eventually we will also have 88.2 kHz versions, but by then our HRx version will be available.
Some Exciting News and Announcements
NEW HRx TITLES176.4 kHz / 24 bit MUSICComing Soon – November 17th MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS #21 AND #24Eugene Istomin / Gerard Schwarz / Seattle Symphony (HR-68) BRITTEN’S ORCHESTRA (HR-120)Order HRx Titles Securely Online! www.ReferenceRecordings.com——————————————- THE ABSOLUTE SOUND Magazine2010 High-End Audio Buyers’ GuideBEST AUDIOPHILE LABEL RECORDINGS: Copland: Third Symphony – Minnesota Orchestra / Eiji Oue (RR-93)“The best recording since Bernstein’s of a great American symphony. Gloriously impactful sonics” Janácek: Opera Excerpts – Czech State Philharmonic /…
Britten’s Orchestra Audio Review – KBAQ
We wanted to share with you an audio review of Britten’s Orchestra from Arizona Public Radio’s KBAQ 89.5FM “Your Classical Companion” Your browser does not have Flash installed. Please click here to use another player.
Britten’s Orchestra Release Day!!!!!
Britten’s Orchestra Michael Stern Kansas City Symphony The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra is a symphonic tour-de-force and audio spectacular, featuring all sections of the symphony, separately and together. Based on a famous theme by Henry Purcell, Britten writes in essence his “Concerto for Orchestra,” taking the ensemble apart, then reassembling it in a grand and jubilant finale. Dynamic range is extreme. Britten was a dedicated pacifist, and the Sinfonia da requiem from 1940…